"Queiro, you're still alive."
Captain John grinned at the familiar figure before him.
"Hahaha! John, I'll still be alive and kicking when you're dead."
Queiro still looked young, unchanged from more than a decade ago. In fact, he had not changed at all in decades.
The Mythical Beast Zoan Werewolf Fruit was a Devil Fruit that granted Queiro the long life of a Long-Lived Species.
Queiro was still young!
Captain John envied him for it. Who wouldn't want to live longer, as long as they kept their strength?
Judging by Queiro's presence, time had not diminished him. If anything, he had grown stronger.
A man was like a cask of wine: before it spoiled, it only improved with age.
For someone as strong as Queiro, who had no fear of growing old, the longer Haki tempered his body, the stronger he became.
John gave the long blade in his hand a slight flick. He had no intention of chatting. They were in the middle of a battle, and he could not let his guard down.
"Leave this one to me."
After being surrounded and suppressed for so long, Captain John had frustration he wanted to vent.
But he was in poor shape, so his gaze naturally fell on the weaker fighter: a hidden asset of a Celestial Dragon family who had come to aid the God's Knights Candidate.
John was confident he could handle him. After all, he had managed to hold his own against both men; now there was only one.
Rampaging Bear Morant had died in battle, but before long, a God's Knights Candidate with Top Combatant-level strength had been crippled too. He had effectively been a future full member of the God's Knights.
He was not dead yet, but he might as well have been. In a